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{{short description|English cricketer (1887–1930)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name name = William Whysall
| image image = William Whysall 1926.jpg
| caption caption = "Dodger" Whysall in 1926
| batting =country Right-hand= batEngland
| bowling full_name = Right-armWilliam Wilfrid mediumWhysall
| columns birth_date = {{Birth date|1887|10|31|df= 2yes}}
| column1 birth_place = [[TestWoodborough, cricket|TestsNottinghamshire]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1930|11|11|1887|10|31|df=yes}}
| matches1 = 4
| runs1 death_place = 209[[Nottingham]]
 
| bat avg1 = 29.85
| 100s/50s1 batting = Right-/2handed
| top score1 bowling = 76Right-arm medium
| deliveries1 role = 16Batsman
 
| wickets1 = -
| bowl avg1 international = -true
| fivefor1 testdebutdate = 16 January = -
| tenfor1 testdebutyear = -1925
| testdebutagainst = Australia
| best bowling1 = -
| testcap = 223
| catches/stumpings1= 7/-
| lasttestdate = 16 August
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 lasttestyear = 371 1930
| lasttestagainst = Australia
| runs2 = 21592
 
| bat avg2 = 38.76
| club1 = [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]]
| 100s/50s2 = 51/103
| top score2 year1 = 2481910–1930
| club2 = [[Players cricket team|Players]]
| deliveries2 = 201
| wickets2 year2 = 61923–1929
| club3 = [[North of England cricket team|North]]
| bowl avg2 = 33.33
| fivefor2 year3 = -1926–1927
 
| tenfor2 = -
| best bowling2 columns = 3/492
 
| catches/stumpings2= 317/15
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| international = true
| country matches1 = English4
| testdebutfor runs1 = 209
| top score1 = 76
| testdebutagainst =
| testdebutdate = 16 January bat avg1 = 29.85
| testdebutyear 100s/50s1 = 19250/2
| catches/stumpings1 = 7/–
| lasttestdate = 16 August
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| wickets1 = 0
| lasttestagainst =
| lasttestyear best bowling1 = 19300/9
| bowl avg1 = –
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| date fivefor1 = =–
| year tenfor1 = =–
 
| column2 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches2 = 371
| runs2 = 21,592
| top score2 = 248
| bat avg2 = 38.76
| 100s/50s2 = 51/103
| catches/stumpings2 = 317/15
| deliveries2 = 201
| wickets2 = 6
| best bowling2 = 3/49
| bowl avg2 = 33.33
| fivefor2 = –
| tenfor2 = –
 
| date = 16 November
| year = 2022
| source = https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/448/448.html CricketArchive
}}
'''William Wilfrid Whysall''' ( born [[Woodborough, Nottinghamshire]] on 31 October 1887, died [[Nottingham]]– 11 November 1930), generally known as '''"Dodger" Whysall''',<ref>[http{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfowisden.com/englandplayers/content/player/22420.htmldodger-whysall |title=Dodger Whysall |work=Wisden England CricketOnline |access-date=16 Cricket Players and OfficialsNovember | ESPNcricinfo] Retrieved 2018-03-14.2022}}</ref> generallywas knownan asEnglish '''"Dodge" Whysall''', was aprofessional [[cricketercricket]]er who played for [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] from 1910 to 1930, and in four [[EnglishTest cricket|Test matches]] for [[England cricket team|England]] from 1925 to 1930. He was born at [[Woodborough, Nottinghamshire]], and died in a [[Nottingham]] hospital.
 
Whysall was a right-handed [[batting (cricket)|opening batsman]] who played in 371 [[first-class cricket|first-class matches]]. He scored 21,592 career [[run (cricket)|runs]] at an average of 38.76 runs per completed [[innings]] with a highest score of 248 as one of 51 [[century (cricket)|centuries]]. Whysall was a noted [[slip fielder]] and an occasional [[wicket-keeper]]. He held 317 career [[caught (cricket)|catches]] and completed 15 [[stumped|stumpings]]. He rarely [[bowling (cricket)|bowled]] but, as a right arm [[medium pace bowling|medium pace bowler]], he took six first-class [[wicket]]s with a best return of 3/49.
Whysall was a right-handed batsman who did little before the [[First World War]] but then developed in the 1920s into a solid and consistent opener in the increasingly successful Nottinghamshire side. He toured [[Australia]] as a member of the 1924-25 side, acting as reserve wicket-keeper and playing in three [[Test cricket|Test matches]]. He scored 75 at [[Adelaide]] and 76 at [[Melbourne Cricket Ground|Melbourne]].
 
==Career==
After being the leading batsman in Nottinghamshire's [[County Championship]]-winning side of 1929, Whysall was recalled to the England Test team for the decisive match of the 1930 series against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]]. The move was not a success. Whysall scored only 13 and 10, and was criticised for his lack of mobility in the field, as England lost by an innings.
===Early matches===
Dodger Whysall is first recorded on 18 June 1908 in a one-day single innings match at [[Trent Bridge]]. Aged 20, he was playing for [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire Club and Ground]] against [[Leicestershire County Cricket Club|Leicestershire Club and Ground]] and scored 25[[not out|*]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/330/330999.html |title=Match scorecard: Nottinghamshire Club and Ground v Leicestershire Club and Ground, 18 June 1908 |work=CricketArchive |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref> He played in several matches for Nottinghamshire's Second XI during the next two seasons, most of them in the [[Minor Counties Championship]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/448/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Dodger Whysall's matches in the Minor Counties Championship |work=CricketArchive |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref>
 
Whysall made his [[first-class cricket|first-class debut]] on 18 August 1910 when he played for Nottinghamshire against [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]] in a [[County Championship]] match at the [[Miners Welfare Ground]] in [[Blackwell, Bolsover|Blackwell]]. He opened the batting with [[George Gunn (cricketer)|George Gunn]] and they shared a first wicket partnership of 100. Whysall scored 50 on debut and Gunn made 51. Nottinghamshire were [[all out (cricket)|all out]] for 261 and dismissed Derbyshire for 246. In the second innings, Whysall was out for 9 as Nottinghamshire reached 89/3 at close of play on the second day. The third day's play was rained off and the match was drawn.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/8/8267.html |title=Match scorecard: Derbyshire v Nottinghamshire, 18–20 August 1910 |work=CricketArchive |access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref>
Barely two months later, Whysall was dead. He slipped on a dance floor and injured his elbow, and died within two weeks from [[septicaemia]] despite a [[blood transfusion]].<ref name="Beard">{{cite book |title=Ask Bearders |last=Frindall |first=Bill |authorlink=Bill Frindall |coauthors= |year=2009 |publisher=[[BBC Books]]|location= |isbn=978-1-84607-880-4 |page=215|pages= |url= }}</ref>
 
At the end of the 1910 season, J. N. Pentelow, the editor of ''[[Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game]]'', wrote that Whysall was one of eleven new first-class players who were "likely to make names for themselves in the future".<ref name="C856427">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1910/434/index.html "The First-Class Season of 1910"], ''Cricket'', issue 856, 22 September 1910, p. 427.</ref> Apart from one innings of 57 in 1911, Whysall achieved little until July 1913 when he scored 97 against [[Gloucestershire County Cricket Club|Gloucestershire]] at Trent Bridge. The report in ''Cricket'' says he hit ten [[boundary (cricket)|boundaries]] and was "distinctly unlucky in skying the ball when only three short of his hundred".<ref name="C937443">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1913/451/index.html "Notts v Gloucestershire"], ''Cricket'', issue 937, 26 July 1913, p. 443.</ref> Whysall finally achieved his maiden [[century (cricket)|century]] in the opening match of the [[1914 English cricket season|1914 season]] when Nottinghamshire played [[Marylebone Cricket Club]] (MCC) at [[Lord's]] on 6–8 May. Batting at number four in the order, Whysall joined [[Garnet Lee]] at 134/2 and they built a third wicket partnership of 175 in just 95 minutes. Whysall made 112 including one six, a five and twelve fours.<ref name="WC7155">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1914/185/index.html "MCC v Nottinghamshire"], ''The World of Cricket'', issue 7, 16 May 1914, p. 155.</ref>
Whysall was a [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1925.
 
Whysall made 43 first-class appearances from 1910 to 1914, all for Nottinghamshire, and was becoming a more regular choice for the county team when [[World War I]] began on 4 August 1914.<ref name="CABBS">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/448/f_Batting_by_Season.html |title=Dodger Whysall: Batting by Season |work=CricketArchive |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref> He was playing in a County Championship match at [[The Oval]] that day, against [[Surrey County Cricket Club|Surrey]].<ref name="WC19420">[https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1914/498/index.html "Surrey v Nottinghamshire"], ''The World of Cricket'', issue 19, 8 August 1914, pp. 420–421.</ref>
 
===County cricket (1920–1930)===
After the war ended, Whysall did not play in the [[1919 English cricket season|1919 season]]. He returned on 5 June 1920 when he was in the Nottinghamshire team for a County Championship match against [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] at [[Headingley Cricket Ground|Headingley]]. He had scores of 19 and 7 in the match. Nottinghamshire won the toss and batted first but were all out for 215. Yorkshire scored 324 all out in reply, [[Wilfred Rhodes]] making 167 not out. Nottinghamshire were dismissed for 157 in the second innings and Yorkshire made 50 without loss to win by 10 wickets.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/9/9812.html |title=Match scorecard: Yorkshire v Nottinghamshire, 5–8 June 1920 |work=CricketArchive |access-date=18 November 2022}}</ref>
 
Through the early 1920s, Whysall made steady progress and, having scored 928 runs in the 1920 season, he made over 1,000 in each of the next ten with a highest total of 2,716 in 1929, when Nottinghamshire won the County Championship.<ref name="CABBS"/> He scored 1,852 runs in 1924, including six centuries, at the substantial average of 46.30<ref name="CABBS"/> and, for his performances that season, he was chosen as a [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year]] in 1925.<ref name="W154714">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154714.html |title=Cricketer of the Year 1925: WW Whysall |work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |year=1925 |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref> He was selected for the [[English cricket team in Australia in 1924–25|England tour of Australia]] in the winter of 1924–25. According to ''Wisden'', Whysall was worth his place on the strength of his batting alone but in fact his wicket-keeping was the decisive factor, although he was not a specialist in the position, so he toured as [[Herbert Strudwick]]'s deputy.<ref name="W154714"/>
 
Whysall was awarded two benefits by Nottinghamshire. The first in 1926 centred on a match against Yorkshire at Trent Bridge. The second, in 1931, was for his family after his early death.<ref name="CA448">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/448/448.html |title=Dodger Whysall: Profile |work=CricketArchive |access-date=19 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="W228173"/>
 
In the winter of 1928–29, Whysall went to Jamaica with [[Sir Julien Cahn's XI cricket team in Jamaica in 1928–29|Sir Julien Cahn's XI]] and played in three first-class matches.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir J Cahn's XI in Jamaica 1928/29 - First-class batting and fielding for Sir J Cahn's XI |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/3/Sir_J_Cahns_XI_in_Jamaica_1928-29/f_Sir_J_Cahns_XI_Batting.html |website=CricketArchive |access-date=10 June 2024 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
 
===Test cricket===
On the 1924–25 tour, Whysall played in three [[Test cricket|Tests]]. He scored 75 at the [[Adelaide Oval]] and 76 at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]].<ref>{{cite web |title=William Whysall Profile |url=https://www.trentbridge.co.uk/trentbridge/history/players/william-whysall.html |website=Nottinghamshire CCC |access-date=10 June 2024}}</ref>
 
He was recalled to the England team for the decisive match of the 1930 series against [[Australian cricket team|Australia]]. The move was not a success. Whysall scored only 13 and 10, and was criticised for his lack of mobility in the field, as England lost by an innings.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |date=1931 |chapter-url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/151746.html |via=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=10 June 2024 |chapter=England v Australia 1930, Fifth Test match}}</ref>
 
==Death==
Less than three months after his final Test, Whysall slipped on a dance floor and injured his elbow. [[Septicaemia]] set in and, despite a [[blood transfusion]], he died in hospital on 11 November 1930.<ref name="W228173">{{cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228173.html |title=1931 Obituaries: William Whysall |work=Wisden Cricketers' Almanack |year=1931 |access-date=17 November 2022}}</ref><ref name="BFAB">{{cite book |last=Frindall |first=Bill |author-link=Bill Frindall |title=Ask Bearders |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |year=2009 |page=215 |isbn=978-18-46078-80-4}}</ref>
 
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